Southwest Jiaotong University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is one of the first research universities with graduate schools, such as "Double First Class", "2 1 1 Project", "Special 985 Project" and "201Collaborative Innovation Plan". It is located in Chengdu, a famous historical and cultural city in China and a national central city.

The school was founded in 1896, formerly known as Shanhaiguan China Imperial Railway Institute. It is the first engineering education institution of higher learning in China, the birthplace of higher education in civil engineering, mining and metallurgy engineering and traffic engineering in China, and one of the two earliest sources of Jiaotong University.

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Southwest Jiaotong University is good at engineering, and has formed four discipline groups: engineering, science, literature and health. There are 26 colleges, 1 Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run school, 1 affiliated hospital (Chengdu Third People's Hospital) and 2 graduate schools in different places (Qingdao Graduate School and Tangshan Graduate School).

Established a medical college with the Third People's Hospital of Chengdu and the General Hospital of the Western Theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It has two first-class national key disciplines of mechanical engineering and transportation engineering, two disciplines 10 national key disciplines, 19 first-class doctoral degree authorization points and 39 first-class master degree authorization points, 165438.

The discipline of transportation engineering ranks first in China (A+) and has entered the national "double-class" construction sequence, the discipline of civil engineering ranks seventh in China (A-), and materials science, engineering and computer science rank first in ESI world 1%.

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